Re: Dinner tonight 12/15/24 will be

Jill McQuown wrote:

On 12/16/2024 3:11 PM, Carol wrote:

Jill McQuown wrote:
 

Chicken Carciofi.  Essentially, chicken with artichoke hearts.
 
Anything on the menu at your house today?
 
Jill

 
I just got back from shopping.  Today was mostly a canned trip (I've
weeded things down a lot so it was getting kinda bare).  I think I
want to make chicken stew though maybe not tonight.  I got a family
pack of thighs (not boneless) and have a lot of boneless frozen.
 
I'm going to look through some chicken stew recipes.
 
Any good ideas in that line?

 
The only chicken stew I make is chicken & dumplings.  I simmer
chicken legs (thigh/drumsticks).  Place in a deep pot with a lid,
cover with water, season with S&P and add a couple of bay leaves.
When the chicken is tender, remove the chicken and debone it; set the
meat aside.  Skim foam off the broth and remove the bay leaves.
Taste the broth and adjust the seasonings.  The vegetables are a bag
of your typical frozen combo; sliced carrots, potatoes, onion,
celery.  (Yes, you could slice fresh vegetables and add them and
simmer it until tender... takes a lot longer given the time it takes
to cook the carrots & potatoes.  These days I don't bother.)  Add the
chicken meat back to the pot with the frozen veggies and simmer until
heated through.  The dumplings I make are the drop-type, not rolled.
Drop by scant teaspoonfuls on top of the simmering stew.  Cook the
dumplings 10 minutes uncovered; cover and cook about 8-10 minutes
more.  The dumplings should be fairly fluffy, not dense.
 
Jill

Humm, I might do this.  Fresh veggies are what I have handy.
Unfortunately the cooking bug bit Don so he's got a very meaty pot of
Navy beans.  Very simple cookery but Don excels there.

1 large meaty pork hambone, cut to 3 pieces
8oz Navy beans
1/2 TB roasted garlic powder
water to cover

Tastes great already!  Don wants a rustic multigrain bread to match it
so making one in a bit (spelt, white, rye amd whole wheat with caraway).

So today I'll split up the packet of chicken thighs into sandwich bags
of 2 each then put as many as fit in a larger ziplock labeled bone in
thighs and freeze them.  I'll tuck your idea away for use in the outer
bag, along with another tomato based one I saw when browsing around.

Chuckle, yes Don and I sometimes collide like that but normally we
catch it in time to avoid wastage.